Builds

This guide provides an overview of a PvE “Minion Mancer” Reaper build. Properly utilized, this build can maintain 11 active minions with periodic increases of up to 16 minions. Minion Mancer Reaper’s feature an incredible amount of survive-ability while still providing high amounts of damage.

This reference guide breaks down the hard crowd control (CC) skills for each of the nine professions in Guild Wars 2. Hard CC skills inflict direct damage to a target’s Defiance Bar (also known as the “Break Bar”), whereas soft CC skills deal damage over time. We chose to focus on hard CC skills because they are the most effective at quickly draining an enemy’s Defiance Bar when time is of the essence. There are many bosses in GW2 with…

“Kill Shot Warrior” is a rifle based build that’s designed around the “Kill Shot” burst skill. With the right combination of traits and specializations a KS Warrior can unleash devastating attacks. This build guide focuses on PvE and describes what we consider to be a “fun” warrior build.

This build guide provides an overview of the Revenant class and explains how to create an optimal PvE Revenant build. The goal is to achieve maximum damage (DPS) while still maintaining a high level of play-ability and utility.

There are so many great Guild Wars 2 online tools and applications that it can be hard to keep track of them all. Players of any level can benefit from using these tools and many veteran players would never want to play without them. From playing the trading post to working towards map completion, there’s a GW2 tool for everyone. We’ve compiled a list of the most useful and most popular Guild Wars 2 tools and resources.